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"However, neither Mallick et al. nor Malaspinas et al. exclude the possibility of multiple out-of-Africa dispersals." (from the commentary). How is that one wa
by mborch 10y ago
"However, neither Mallick et al. nor Malaspinas et al. exclude the possibility of multiple out-of-Africa dispersals." (from the commentary).
How is that one wave?
- dnautics 10y agoyeah, i doubt the thesis. The egyptians certainly left africa in several waves, and it's unbelievable that there wasn't genetic mixing between egypt and subsaharan africa.
- dogma1138 10y agoWhat are exactly egyptians in your case? Much of the mediterranean basin including modern Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, Egypt, and the rest of N. Africa was also settled by "Europeans". Egypt itself went through multiple periods including Persian, Canaanite, and Hellenic periods. Overall you need to be very specific of the period because there was a lot of influx and movement of people and civilizations. Even in the past 2000 years there were huge demographic changes in Egypt, the Egyptians today are not an entirely good representation of Egypt even 2000 years ago during the Coptic period. The changes in skin tone, physique and facial characteristics in Egyptian art are quite interesting to see and they represent the changes in the ethnic and demographic makeup of the civilization. For example late period mummies and portraits show the outcome of genetic influx from Hellenic and Roman cultures into Egypt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayum_mummy_portraits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayum_mummy_portraits, this is even more interesting since Faiyum is quite far from the coast line which shows that demographic changes spanned the geography of egypt.
- dnautics 10y agoso, basically you made my point for me.
- burrdurr 10y ago"Don't ask questions Goy!".
- reflexive 10y agoThere's one wave that provided 98% of the genes in modern humans outside Africa. Probably a single traveling group that represents a historical choke-point in the gene pool.